Revising Reality - Gavaler, Chris; Goldberg, Nat
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An exploration of the artistic and pop culture concepts of sequels, remakes, retcons, and rejects, this book applies them to the ways in which we understand, reinterpret and revise real-world history and current events. Free from such sequence, novels, comics, films, and TV shows continue previous events (sequels), reveal previously unknown events (retcons), or restart events (remakes), and audiences can still ignore any of these revisions if they chose (rejects). But what if these revisionist tropes adopted by popular media now provide us with the essential tools and rhetoric for…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
An exploration of the artistic and pop culture concepts of sequels, remakes, retcons, and rejects, this book applies them to the ways in which we understand, reinterpret and revise real-world history and current events. Free from such sequence, novels, comics, films, and TV shows continue previous events (sequels), reveal previously unknown events (retcons), or restart events (remakes), and audiences can still ignore any of these revisions if they chose (rejects). But what if these revisionist tropes adopted by popular media now provide us with the essential tools and rhetoric for understanding the nature of the real world and how we discuss it? Deriving revision types from those present in fictional franchises such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and the Marvel comics, Chris Gavaler and Nate Goldberg apply them to events and debates in U.S history, politics, law, science and culture to explore how storytelling frames our engagement with historiography, metaphysics, society and current events. Covering case studies such as the reversal of Roe vs Wade, identity politics, the discoveries of Copernicus, memory, cancel culture, supreme court rulings, revisionist history, critical race theory, paradigm shifts and much more, this book makes our perceptions of the world and their relation to an ever-changing reality accessible and coherent.
Autorenporträt
Chris Gavaler is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is also the author of On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 (2015) and Superhero Comics (2017) and Creating Comics (2021), both published by Bloomsbury. Since 2021, he has been series editor of Bloomsbury Comics Studies.